The Daily Sift

Dark energy weakens. Quantum gravity flickers. Biosignatures glow. The cosmos is speaking again—and we’re finally listening.

6000 exoplanets, Mars life hints, Saturn’s mystery beads, a comet on approach. The cosmos is alive—are we near first contact?

• European Space Agency (ESA) just confirmed that the tally of near-Earth asteroids has now crossed 40,000, a milestone underscoring how exhaustively we’re cataloguing cosmic hazards — and how essential planetary-defense infrastructure has become. • Meanwhile, the cosmic backdrop remains dynamic: a distant red giant, scarred by a past stellar collision, just revealed its hidden history through unexpectedly rhythmic “starquakes” — a reminder of how violent and fluid stellar evolution can be. ⸻...

The cosmos is rewriting its own script — from evolving dark energy to whispers of alien life and the hum of hidden gravity.

The cosmos is getting weird fast: slowing expansion, alien-chemistry ice, quantum gravity breakthroughs and new worlds next door.

Dark energy fading. Mars whispers fossils. JWST finds alien hints. The cosmos speaks—are we finally listening?